22nd Vostroyan Royal Rifle Regiment: 2009

Vostroyan First Born

The Vostroyans are one of the oldest Imperial Guard regiments, able to trace their regimental histories back to the Horus Heresy. The Vostroyans have a tradition that the firstborn son of every household will serve in the Vostroyan regiments, hence the name of the Regiments. Vostroyan soldiers and officers retain a very archaic appearance on the real world century Russian Cossacks. Firstborn use long and very ornate rifles, usually with wooden stocks. Officers bear lasguns integrated with axes. Thus, the Vostroyans are probably the regiment most evocative of the "retor-tech" background of Warhamer 40,000.

Vostroya is a world in the Halo Zone beyond the Eye of Terror, which swore allegiance to Mars during the Age of Strife. It is now ruled by a committee of Techtriarchs, a mix of Mechanicus Magos and more traditional Imperial planetary government. During the Horus Heresy, Vostroya refused to provide regiments to the Emperor, preferring instead to reserve the population in the manufactorium blanketing the world. After the Heresy came to an end the Vostroyans agreed to supply every first born son to service with the Imperial Guard.

According to Vostroya's Offering of the First Born, the eldest son of every family must enlist in the Regiments. There are no exceptions to this law, which applies even to the Techtriarchs and the most noble families. For most Vostroyans, it is an honour to join the Firstborn, as great importance is attached to the payment of the debt owed to the Emperor millennia ago.
Unlike other Imperial Guard regiments that are raised en-masse, the Firstborn get a steady flow of new recruits from their homeworld. As a result, the Firstborn regiments have existed unbroken since they were first created. This is not always easy to organize, but ensures that Vostroyan regiments maintain their highest potential, as well as ensuring there's a core of veteran warriors. One consequence of this method is that the Firstborn are considered a brotherhood of warriors and are proud to train the recruits according to their own exacting standards. Few Imperial Guard regiments have a stronger brotherly bond than the Vostroyans.
The Firstborn are trained in very difficult conditions among the ruined industrial areas of their homeworld.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

20k Apoc Game at Mind Games

Our local store Mind Games put together one of the first Apoc games all year. It was 20k Points, which placed the Imperium versus Tau, Nids and Chaos. Most of My Able Company joined the fight along with all my tanks and B Company Mortars.

The fight was great, when I showed up no one on the Imperial side had brought troops so my roommate fielded the 22nd Vostroyan Royal Rifle Regiment which consisted of:

22nd Vostroyan Royal Rifle Regiment

2x10 Veterans

1x10 Ratlings

3 Vanquishers

1 Leman Russ

1 Stormlord

1x3 Mortar Platoon

1 Hellhound

1 Ragnarok MKI (Leman Russ)

1 Valkerie

1 Vendetta

1 Bombard

1 Chimera

1 Basalisk

I was forced to bring out my Dark Angels to help our team. I fielded:

Dark Angels Task Force

1 Marine Battle Company (3rd Company)

and

2x10 Devastators (5th Company)

5x5 Assault Marines (Pulled from 9th and 4th Company)

15 Deathwing Terminators

3 Vindicators

2 Predators

10 Rhinos

3 Razorbacks

1x5 Scouts

1 Drop Pod

1 Thunderhawk Gunship

Consecrators Chapter

1 Predator

The rest of the Imperium fielded a few Land Raiders loaded with Salamanders and 2 basalisks and a few squadrons of Leman Russ' and a nicely painted Warhound Titan. The battle was 5 turns long which seemed awfully long when it wasnt our turn. Our objective was to hold the city and the big ruined chapel in the back we had dubbed the "alamo" we also had to sieze objectives place all over the board. The final turn caused the Titan to explode killing over 50 demons and genestealers. Although the Imperium lost it was alot of fun. The only objectives in the end were captured by the Dark Angels or contested by the Dark Angels but with the amount of enemies thrown at the Imperium we were unable to beat the total kill points of the Enemy team.

The MVP was probably the Stormlord from my roommates list that didnt move once but cut down about 4000 points of tyranid by itself.